Overview

Mission Control Technologies (MCT) brings
information from many sources to your users through one consistent,
intuitive interface. This capability replaces stove-piped tools, each of
which has its own data set, data format, and user interface. Instead
of different applications, MCT has a collection of user objects that
correspond to the things users are interested in, along with the
capability of displaying the same thing in different ways for different
purposes. Data can be added from multiple sources, updated, modified,
and represented in multiple composable views.

MCT was developed
at NASA Ames Research Center for use in spaceflight mission operations,
but is equally applicable to any other data monitoring application. And
since MCT uses an open architecture and open standards, it's easy
to customize the MCT platform to your environment, workflow, and
operating requirements by simply adding new objects, views, or data
sources. With such an open-ended model, MCT can work in any number of disciplines, from aerospace to science to manufacturing.

Features

User-composable objects designed to mirror the data and behavior of their real-world counterparts

Display multiple data sources in one UI; data source integration is transparent to the users

View the same object in different ways without switching applications.

All MCT objects can be used as the building blocks for constructing additional objects

Every user object can interact with every other user object in consistent, predictable ways

No need to use multiple applications with the same data

Modular, configurable using plug-ins

System Requirements

MCT is a platform-independent Java application. The same
distribution will run under the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating
systems. To run MCT, you must have Java version 1.6_15 or later.

The demonstration version of MCT is self-contained with no additional software requirements.

The full MCT platform release requires installation and configuration of MySQL server and Apache Ant.

Additional
configuration requirements for developers using the MCT Toolkit to
write plug-ins are described in the GitHub MCT repository.

License

Mission Control Technologies, Copyright
(c) 2009-2012, United States Government as represented by the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All
rights reserved.

The MCT platform is released under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license
and includes source code licensed under additional open source licenses.
For more information, see the Licenses page. The full text of the Apache license is also available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html.